[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 34805] Recovery of MS OFFICE documents fails after crash

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34805

--- Comment #6 from Tor Lillqvist <tlillqvist at novell.com> 2011-07-15 02:33:02 PDT ---
Could not reproduce in a straightforward test with 3.4.2 rc1 on Windows XP. I
set the aurorecovery interval to one minute. I edit a .doc document, adding a
bit of text, wait for over one minute, and terminate the soffice.bin process in
Task Manager. Then I restart LibreOffice. It offers to recover the document
that was being edited, I click "Start Recovery". Next it then offers to send a
crash report (huh, I thought we didn't have this functionality, where do these
crash reports go?), I click Cancel. The document opens with my unsaved
additions intact.

Is there something special about the initial reporter's situation? Where do you
store the temporary files, what is the path for "Temporary files" in
Tools:Options:LibreOffice:Paths ?

I think the claim that the problem the initial bug reporter sees would be
specific to MSO file types is a red herring. As far as I can understand,
autorecovery backup files are  in fact saved as the appropriate ODF format.
I.e. for text documents, .odt. (The file names used end with .tmp, though.)
Autorecovery works also for documents that have been created from scratch
without having ever been saved in any format at all, how would that work if
autorecovery used the format the document was loaded as, or last saved as?

Rainer, I am afraid I am going to ignore your complex comment, it just confuses
me... I don't know what backup folder and files you are talking about.

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